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Edward MacDowell: A Study is by Lawrence Gilman. The preface says the biographical portion is almost wholly new, and has been greatly enlarged, while the chapters dealing with MacDowell's music have been revised and extended. The text says Mrs. MacDowell laid the matter before Marmontel, who urgently advised her against diverting her son from a musical career.
The summer of 1878 was the year of the Exposition, and the text says MacDowell and his mother attended a festival concert at which Nicholas Rubinstein played Tchaikovsky's B-flat minor piano concerto in memorable style. Writing about technic, the text says "His tone in chord playing, it is true, was often harsh", and quotes the words "chord playing extraordinary in variety, tender, mysterious, sinister, heroic". The text says that of the moderns, Wagner he worshipped, Tchaikovsky deeply moved him, and Grieg he loved.
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- Lawrence Gilman
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- Pages
- 105
- Language
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- Music
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